[thelist] regex help - password pattern - javascript [solved]

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

--- "Kowalkowski, Lee (ASPIRE)" <lee.kowalkowski at hmrcaspire.com> wrote:
 
> I'm not sure why you're trying to solve this with 1 regular expression.  If
> you have the three rules above, you ought to have three conditions in your
> code.  That way you have the opportunity to provide more guidance in your
> error messages.  Rather than an unhelpful "invalid password" message, tell
> the user exactly why.
> 
> I wouldn't bother with a regular expression for the first rule, just check
> password.length.  If you don't allow leading, trailing or any whitespace,
> write a separate condition for that.
> 
> The second rule: /(.*\d){2}/.test(password)
> 
> The third rule: /(.*[a-z]){2}/i.test(password)

That makes sense (and someone else had mentioned the same thing as well). The way I had been using
my validation setup, I wanted one expression, but I can modify it to use 2-3. Thanks for the help!

Tom


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